Consuming seafood buffet is a delectable experience. However, there are ample amount of cases where people suffer food poisoning just because they consume bad seafood.
When you are at the seafood buffet restaurant, it is important for you to observe and determine the quality of seafood. No one can resist the abundant supply of seafood that is available in Thailand.
Street vendors often have limited cleaning facilities and cold storage. Thus, the stake becomes higher when you consume seafood at these places. The very first rule of thumb for raw seafood, it must not stink, if it stinks, throw it. Go for the Pattaya beach resort instead to ensure quality.
For squid at Pattaya beach resort, when they are caught fresh, there is an attractive translucent flesh and the pigment on the skin is still sparkling and moving, indicating that the squid is still alive.
How to determine if a squid is dead? Best beach hotel shouldn’t have whitish flesh with torn skin and lose the head. Squid is naturally firm but can be toughened by incorrect cooking and overcooking.
If the best beach hotel overcooks it, it will become chewy as rubber tires. Fresh and well-cooked squid should be chewy, firm. Split it out from your mouth if it tastes soft, slimy or gritty.
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Next, there are shrimps. Fresh raw shrimps should have their heads firmly attached to the body. If the shell becomes soft, they might become moulted.
One of the characteristics of fresh shrimps at the luxury stay in Pattaya is that it must look shiny, glossy and have translucent grey colour. It is ok to have black spots or brown head on the shrimp as it doesn’t affect the freshness.
Excessive use of sodium metabisulphite, which is a chemical that can cause yellowing around the shrimp legs. Vendors and fisherman use it to control black spot and to extend the shelf life of shrimps.
Freshly cooked shrimps should taste sweet, crunchy and firm. If it tastes soft, powdery or extremely chewy, it means that the shrimps that you are consuming have gone way past its lifespan perimeters.
Uncooked fish should have bright, shiny eyes with red gills and firm flesh intact to the bones. Each type of fish has a different type of flesh but they all should look shiny, translucent.
If the fish at the terminal 21 hotel have a cloudy cornea, opaque flesh and begin to turn brown, you ought to avoid it. Bad fish could be powdery and look like cotton. How to determine if the fish you are having is fully cooked? The flesh should be able to pull out and stay in a chunky form.
Crustacean Shellfish Such as Crabs, Crayfish, Lobsters and More.
Raw shellfish need to be alive before cooking. The legs should be moving when there something touches it. The bigger the movement of the shellfish, means the better the quality of the seafood.
Thailand has two main types of crabs which are mud crab and blue swimmer crab. Mud crab should have a harder shell unless it has moulted recently.
There shouldn’t be any missing parts or cracks of the shellfish. Losing limps signifies stress on crabs indicates that it has lost tension in muscles. Dead shellfish are not advised to be purchased as it is difficult to assess how long ago, they died.
More importantly, check the crabs at Bbq seafood buffet Pattaya any opaque flesh or spots in colours such as green, yellow, brown and black during the crab is raw means it has poison. Be sure to lift the abdominal flap to check the smell.